Kozitsyn Andrei Anatolyevich

Kozitsyn Andrei Anatolyevich

Biography

Andrei was born on June 9, 1960 in the city Upper Pyshma Sverdlovsk region,. Russia

In 1979 he studied at the Sverdlovsk Mining and Metallurgical College. I.I.Polzunov.

In 1993 he was educated at the Metallurgical Faculty of the Ural Polytechnic Institute (UGTU-UPI).

Candidate of Economic Sciences.

From 1979 to 1981 he served in the USSR Armed Forces.

In 1981 and until 1993 he worked as an electrician, head of the instrumentation and control section, deputy head of the automation laboratory, head of the equipment department, commercial director at the Uralelectromed plant.

1995: General Director of Uralelectromed

In 1995, he became the general director of the Uralelectromed plant. He worked until 2002.

1995: General Director of UMMC

In 1999, he received the post of general director of the Ural Mining and Metallurgical Company (UMMC).

2002: General Director of UMMC-Holding

In 2002, he became the general director of UMMC-Holding.

In 2009, on shares with partner Igor Altushkin, he acquired the Chelyabinsk Zinc Plant from the owner of Sollers Vadim Shvetsov and the owner of ChelPipeNetherlands Komarov.

As of April 23, 2018, Andrei Anatolyevich Kozitsyn works as General Director of UMMC.

2022: Omnipol bought Aircraft Industries

At the end of April 2022, the sale of aircraft manufacturer Aircraft Industries to another Czech company Omnipol was announced. The website of the latter says that the asset was bought from a Russian, but his name is not called. Read more here.

2023: Purchase of the company Confidential

Andrei Kozitsyn became the owner of 100% of the company "Confidence," which specializes in investments in authorized capital and venture capital investment. The corresponding entry appeared in the Unified State Register of Legal Entities (Unified State Register of Legal Entities) on October 24, 2023. Read more here.

Social and political activities

Member of the Presidium of the Board of the Chamber of Commerce and Industry^[1].

Chairman of the Metallurgy Committee of^[1] Chamber of Commerce and Industry of the Russian Federation^[1].

• Member of the Management Board of the Russian Union of Industrialists and Entrepreneurs (RSPP).
• Member of the Economic Council under the Governor of the Sverdlovsk Region.
• Member of the Advisory Council on Foreign Investment of the Sverdlovsk Region.
• President of NP "Union of Enterprises of the Metallurgical Complex of the Sverdlovsk Region" until 2010
• Member of the Presidium of the Association of Metallurgists of Russia.
• President of the Children of Russia charitable foundation.
• President of the UMMC basketball club.
• Vice-President^[1] All-Russian Sambo Federation^[1].

Interesting facts

At the age of 13, a teenager Andrei Kozitsyn pulled a little girl out of the river and was awarded the medal "For Saving Drowning."

In 1998-1999, Kozitsyn was recognized as the winner of the annual regional competition "Leader in Business" in the highest personal nomination "Olympus." In 2001, he entered the top ten managers of the country in a survey of the economic weekly Expert. For services to the state, a great contribution to the development of non-ferrous metallurgy and many years of conscientious work, he was awarded the Order of Friendship.

2012 - the head of the Sverdlovsk railway Shevket Shaidullin presented UMMC General Director Andrei Kozitsyn with an award in the special nomination "Person of the Year" for a significant contribution to the development and formation of railway transport^[2]

Andrei Kozitsyn was awarded five orders of^[3] Russian Orthodox Church for^[3] construction of churches].

Hobbies

History of Russia, sports, hunting.

In his free time^[3] rides a Harley-Davidson motorcycle].

Awards, Titles and Prizes

State awards

• 1974 - Medal "For the Salvation of the Drowning."
• 1999 - Order of Friendship ("For personal contribution to the development of the mining and metallurgical industry of Russia")^[1].
• 2008 - Order of Honor ("For achieved labor successes and many years of conscientious work")^[1].

Confessional Awards

• 2011 - Order of St. St. Seraphim of Sarov I degree^[4].
• 2007 - Order of St. Sergius of Radonezh II degree.
• 2010 - Order of St. St. Seraphim of Sarov II degree.
• Order of the Holy Equal-to-the-Apostles Grand Duke Vladimir III degree.
• Order of the Holy Noble Prince Daniel of Moscow III degree.
• Order of St. Sergius of Radonezh III degree.
• 2005 - Order of St. St. Seraphim of Sarov III degree.
• 2009 - Order of St. Andrew Rublev III degree.
• 2006 - Order of John the Baptist (award of the Latvian Orthodox Church).
• 2004 - Commemorative silver medal "15 years of Valaam restoration."
• 2008 - International Prize of Andrei the First-Called "For Faith and Fidelity"^[1].

Honorary titles

• 2006 - Honorary Consul of the Republic of Austria for the Urals Federal District.
• 2010 - Honorary Citizen of Yekaterinburg.
• Honorary Citizen of the city of Verkhnyaya Pyshma.

Public awards

• February 6, 2008 - Order of the Catherine Cross, 1st degree.
• Honorary badge "For services to the city of Yekaterinburg."
• 2005 - Laureate of the Darin National Business Reputation Award of the Russian Academy of Business and Entrepreneurship.

Other awards

• October 2001 - Honorary badge "300 years of Ural metallurgy."
• October 2001 - Honorary badge "Akinfiy Nikitich Demidov"^[1].
• August 2003 - The badge "200 years of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs."
• June 2003 - Honorary insignia "For services to the UMMC" I degree.
• November 2006 - Insignia "For services to the Sverdlovsk region" III degree.
• February 2008 - Certificate of Merit of the Federal Agency for Physical Culture and Sports.
• July 2009 - Uralelectromed Distinguished Service Medal.
• October 2009 - Honorary Badge "For services to JSC" Russian Railways. "
• June 07, 2010 - Certificate of Honor of the Governor of the Sverdlovsk Region.
• June 08, 2010 - Badge of Honor "For Assistance to the Ministry of Internal Affairs."
• June 09, 2010 - Order of the Ural Mining and Metallurgical Company "For Labor and Honor" I degree.

Ranks

• April 2000 - Diploma "Best Manager of Russia."
• 2003 - entered the List of "1000 most professional managers in Russia" in the industry "Metallurgy and Mining."
• July 2004 - Elected a full member of the Academy of Mining Sciences.
• January 2005 - Benefactor of the Year 2004 Award.
• December 2008 - entered the List of persons included in the "first hundred" reserve of managerial personnel under the patronage of the President of the Russian Federation.
• September 2009 - Honorary Professor of the Ural State University of Economics.

Marital status

Married. Daughter.

Aktivs

The main assets of Andrei Kozitsyn are concentrated:

• mining, metallurgy (UMMC).

State

As of April 2018, according to Forbes^[5], Andrei Kozitsyn ranks 25th in the ranking of "200 richest businessmen in Russia 2018" with a fortune of $4.8 billion.

It ranks 76th in the ranking of the Russian-language version of Forbes "The Richest Businessmen of Russia - 2012." Andrei Kozitsyn's fortune is estimated at $1.2 billion ^[6].

He took 66th place in the ranking of the Russian-language version of Forbes "The Richest Businessmen of Russia - 2011." Andrei Kozitsyn's fortune was estimated at $1.5 billion^[7].

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